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Algebra Seminar: Organizational Meeting
2007-08-27
1:10 p.m. Neill 106W
Judi McDonald
Welcome to the Fall semester for new and returning graduate students. The Algebra Seminar will run Mondays from 1:10-2:00 in Neill 106W. We will begin the semester as follows: Monday August 20 - No class - the first day of school is hecticenough. Monday August 27 - Organizational Meeting - at this meeting we will choose when students would like to give presentations and further details about the seminar will be given. Monday September 3 - Holiday Monday September 10 - Using the WSUThesis.sty file to typeset your project or disseration. Monday September 17 - Nonnegative Matrices in the Tropical (Max) Algebra Students interested in taking the seminar for credit should register for up to two credits of Math 600-03. If it is your first semester in the seminar, you will not have to give a talk, but if you would like the experience, the faculty involved with the seminar can help you choose a topic. Students who have started working on their dissertation or project will generally talk about their own work. If you have further questions, please send me an e-mail.
Weekly Scheduled Seminars
For more information please contact the individuals listed below.Monday
1:10pmAlgebra Seminar - Google Group
Neill Hall 106W
Contact: Judi McDonald
Tuesday
4:30-5:30pmMathematics Education Seminar
One World Cafe - Moscow, ID
Contact: Libby Knott
Wednesday
3:00-4:00pmApplied Math Seminar
Neill Hall 3W
Contact: Alan Genz
4:00-5:00pm
Reliability and Risk Seminar
Neill Hall 106W
Contact: Haijun Li
Thursday
Friday
4:15-5:15pmSpatial Reasoning: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Cleveland Annex 309
Contact Co-organizers: Kim Vincent and Kathleen Ryan, Interior Design.
Various disciplines dealing with spatial relationships and reasoning will be examined. We will discuss what spatial reasoning is and how to improve students' spatial reasoning. The book, Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum will be used. A read-only version may be found at www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11019